COPING WITH PSORIASIS - A GUIDE FOR COUNSELING PATIENTS

Psoriasis is a common, chronic, intractable hyperproliferative skin di sease that affects 1 to 3 percent of the American population.' This di sease accounts for 4.8 percent of office visits for dermatologic reaso ns, third after warts and acne.(2) Two British dermatologists, however , note that dermatologists tend to pay ''more attention to the rash an d its transient, occasional removal than to the problems of the patien t in the community in relation to that rash.(''3)